Question regarding buying on the Trading Post

[Pacificterror.7805]

When putting in a Buy offer, are you able to retract it at any time? If so, are you able to get back whatever additional tax the TP has imposed or is that forfeited?

 

I can only find info about Sell offers online. Thanks in advance.

[wolfsblut.9435]

You can cancle your buy order any time. No costs.

[Danikat.8537]

The tax is only kept if you offer an item for sale. I don't think Anet have ever said why, but the usual assumption is so you can't just use the TP as extra bank space. Otherwise everyone could list items they don't current need for 10,000g each so they'll never sell but are out of their bank/inventory and just cancel the sale when they want them back.

 

Since you can store more gold than most players will ever have in the wallet there's no need to do that with buy orders. (There is a limit to how much gold you can store, but it's something like 100,000g.)

[Linken.6345]

7 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

The tax is only kept if you offer an item for sale. I don't think Anet have ever said why, but the usual assumption is so you can't just use the TP as extra bank space. Otherwise everyone could list items they don't current need for 10,000g each so they'll never sell but are out of their bank/inventory and just cancel the sale when they want them back.

 

Since you can store more gold than most players will ever have in the wallet there's no need to do that with buy orders. (There is a limit to how much gold you can store, but it's something like 100,000g.)

Well if they want it out of wallet out of mind since they impulse buys then its good to store as buy orders.

 

50g dusk or dawn buy orders will never fill OP

[Danikat.8537]

2 hours ago, Linken.6345 said:

Well if they want it out of wallet out of mind since they impulse buys then its good to store as buy orders.

 

50g dusk or dawn buy orders will never fill OP

Yeah I've heard of a few people setting up buy orders that will never fill as a way of saving gold.

 

But I think it's far more common for players to run short of bank space than to need somewhere to store excess gold, so I think if they gave you the tax back on sell orders there would be a lot more items with unrealistic prices on the TP. (And a lot fewer people buying bigger bags or new bank tabs.)

[Hesione.9412]

16 hours ago, Pacificterror.7805 said:

When putting in a Buy offer, are you able to retract it at any time? If so, are you able to get back whatever additional tax the TP has imposed or is that forfeited?

 

I can only find info about Sell offers online. Thanks in advance.

You can retract at any time. There is no tax on buying items - you will only pay what you offer.

 

E.g. If I put up a buy offer for 20 gold, I will only have 20 gold removed from my wallet. If I withdraw my buy offer, I will get 20 gold waiting for me to pick up from the TP.